Paolo Sorrentino looks at youth’s deepest regrets as time goes by in ‘Parthenope,’ a study on how we we choose to spend the finite period we have on this planet.
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There more than a little Monkey-business going on, as Director Osgood Perkins’ latest film, ‘The Monkey’ is certainly not on the level of his ‘Longlegs’, as the film struggles with tonal coherency.
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With films under his belt such as ‘The Black Phone’, ‘Sinister’ and ‘Doctor Strange’, director Scott Derrikson should be an exciting, much talked auteur. Instead ‘The Gorge’ merely adds another film in a growing list of visually stunning yet ultimately flawed films.
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Renée Zellweger gives her best and most vulnerable performance of Bridget Jones in the fourth instalment, ‘Mad About the Boy’ which pieces the titular character’s life back together in the wake of insurmountable loss.
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Ke Huy Quan finally has an action vehicle to his name with ‘Love Hurts’, but his effervescent performance sadly can’t overcome the many hurdles this 83-minute-long affair is sadly stuck in.
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Amy Schumer and Tyler Spindel destroy the joyful nature of screwball comedies with the horrifically unfunny ‘Kinda Pregnant’, which gets progressively worse as its eternal ninety-minute runtime stretches to unbearable heights.
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Walter Salles attempts to denounce Brazil’s military dictatorship in his family drama ‘I’m Still Here’ but accomplishes very little despite a committed performance by Fernanda Torres.
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Keke Palmer and SZA make one hell of a comedic duo in the uproariously funny ‘One of Them Days’, a perfect January surprise for moviegoers looking for pure escapism.
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Leigh Whannell reinvigorates interest in the werewolf through his frequently thrilling ‘Wolf Man’, even if the movie stumbles as it reaches its uneventful conclusion.
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Jeff Fowler, director and chief creative behind all three Sonic films thus far (as well as the ‘Knuckles’ show) got his start within the franchise early on, and it continues to pay off in ‘Sonic 3’.
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While stars Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas give their all in ‘Babygirl’, the film is hindered by a severe lack of chemistry with its lead star and a profoundly miscast Harris Dickinson.
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Tim Fehlbaum’s attempt at criticizing the normative ideals of journalistic objectivity in ‘September 5’ turns into a total and complete failure by being afraid of engaging itself with the backdrop it presents.
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‘Nosferatu’ may truly be Robert Eggers’ best film yet. He fired on all cylinders here and delivered a spirited modern rendition of a classic story that belongs in the same hallowed halls as the 1922 original from which it was wrought.
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William Goldenberg energetically depicts Anthony Robles' inspiring story in ‘Unstoppable’, a sports drama anchored by compelling turns from Jharrel Jerome, Don Cheadle, and Jennifer Lopez.
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If you have the time, ‘Wicked’ is a totally worthy afternoon at the movies meant for family and friends. The World of Oz needed a refreshment, and perhaps this wizardly revisit is exactly what the wizard ordered.
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Tyler Thomas Taormina depicts the euphoric chaos of Christmastime unlike any filmmaker has ever showcased in ‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’. Yet there are glaring flaws that prevent it from becoming the next great Christmas classic.
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Despite an assured visual style, Steve McQueen’s latest fiction film, ‘Blitz’, is an often muddled and dull drama that doesn’t know what it wants to say about the central characters it focuses on.
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Clint Eastwood gives aspiring filmmakers a true lesson in shot-reverse-shot with ‘Juror #2’, a gripping procedural thriller on the fallacies of our legal system(s).
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Liam Neeson gives his all for the first time in a long time in ‘Absolution’, even if the material he has to work with tends to be on the muddled side.
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Robert Zemeckis teams up with Tom Hanks and AI, but the garish experiment simply becomes non-linear, static and a complete miss. The resulting film is ‘Here’, and it is just as baffling as you think.
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